Cbi - Thalia Griffiths

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Thalia Griffiths
African Energy Editor

E: thalia@africa-energy.com

Thalia Griffiths is African Energy Editor, an experienced journalist and analayst of the politics and economics of Sub-Saharan Africa. She has been instrumental in the development of African Energy since its launch in 1998, and also works on other Africa-related CbI projects.

Thalia is a former deputy editor of London-based newsletter Africa Confidential, and travelled extensively for ten years as a correspondent of Reuters news agency. She joined Reuters after leaving Oxford University, where she studied French and German, and her time with the company included three years based in the West Africa bureau in Cote d'Ivoire, plus spells in Cyprus (on the Middle East desk) and Bulgaria. She still travels regularly to Africa, including recent assignments for African Energy to Chad, Senegal and Uganda, amongst other countries.

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5 December 2011
Harnessing desert sun to power Europe
CbI chairman and African Energy editorial director Jon Marks is quoted in this BBC News article
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2 December 2011
Oil flows boost election-year budget, but Ghana faces longer wait for gas
Issue 921 of African Energy leads with analysis of Ghana's plans to utilise gas from the Jubilee field
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23 November 2011
North AfricaHardball - new speakers confirmed
Three new speakers have been added to the line-up for CbI's second North Africa Hardball briefing on 1 December in London
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11 November 2011
The old guard reconfigures with Salman as defence minister and KBS as deputy
Issue 912 of GSN analyses the key players in the reshuffles following Prince Sultan’s death
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28 October 2011
Saudi hardline crown prince may mellow in power: analysts
CbI director Eleanor Gillespie is quoted in this AFP article
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21 October 2011
No oil bounty for France and UK as Libya rebuilds
CbI’s John Hamilton guest writes for CNN
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20 October 2011
Libya's next tests: Big expectations, power plays

CbI's John Hamilton is quoted in this Reuters article examining life after Gaddafi

14 October 2011
Saudi Arabia and Iran trade accusations
The new Issue of GSN looks at relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran and examines Saudi policy towards Yemen
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Key Contacts
Jon Marks Mark Ford John Hamilton Nick Carn Eleanor Gillespie Thalia Griffiths	- Chairman - Managing Director - Director of London Office - Publishing and Marketing Director - Research Director - African Energy Editor